I should apologize for my lack of activity around here recently, but I won’t because I’m not particularly sorry. The fact is I’ve been focusing on other sites this summer and there are only so many hours in the day. I still like having this blog, but it’s not my first priority right now. So, updates will continue to be more occasional than often, because that’s how I roll. (I have made some additions around this domain, though — a 20 years old, a one-page tribute to ONE OK ROCK. ♥)
Anyway. I do have a point I’d like to get to, and that’s a rant about a musician who’s near and dear to my heart. Or more specifically, her cover art.
I speak, of course, about Ayumi Hamasaki. One look at the cover for her most recent single, Sunrise/Sunset ~LOVE is ALL~, should tell you everything you need to know. It’s very pathetically Photoshopped and she looks ridiculous. For Ayu, or at least her cover art, this is a new low.
But it’s one I definitely expected. I haven’t liked any of Ayu’s covers for a long time now, and each one is just another disappointment. The last one I actually liked was talkin’ 2 myself, which came out in September 2007. Since then, it’s been a string of one terrible cover after another.
When Gackt announced some time ago that he was going to release four singles in four weeks instead of an album (all with fanclub-only versions), the general reaction was either 1) WTF? or 2) jeez, don’t you have enough money already?
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